Sunday, January 22, 2012

Blends Join Hands Blog Hop!! Fabulous prizes!!

Hi everyone and welcome to the BLENDS JOIN HANDS Blog Hop, hosted by the fabulous Jessica of Jessica's Craft Shaque!! Jessica is celebrating her 1 year blogaversary (Happy Blogaversary, Jessica!!) and has invited her nearest and dearest Blends (Blog + Friends) to join in her celebration! Each Blend has selected one of Jessica's past creations to inspire us to create a new project!

If you've hopped along from Cindy at Tools of a Cropping Queen, then you are in the right place!! If you are just joining me from your dashboard, or reading this via email, please be sure to CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Jessica's blog!!

Not only will you see some awesome projects inspired by our hostess along the way, but there will be some AMAZING prizes up for grabs!!

Stephanie of Whimsical Designs is our Grand Prize Sponsor! One Random Hopper will be selected to win the entire New Release of Whimsical Designs Stamps! This is a fabulous stamp set with wonderful and unique images and sentiments. You are sure to find a sentiment to fit every occasion!!

Julie K of A Little Bit of Bling and 3 Girl JAM is also a Prize Sponsor! One Random Hopper will be selected to win the entire Valentine's Day Bundle! This colors are vibrant and the prices are outstanding!!

Jessica is also offering not 1, not 2, but . . . 3 Unity Stamp Goody Bags to 3 lucky Hoppers!!! Each bag is filled with 16 random Unity Stamps!! PLUS, she is offering 2 Lucky Hoppers 1 set (5 per set) of her Handmade Corsage Pins for you to use in your own creations!!

But that's not all!! For a final prize to a lovely Hopper she will offer one $10 Gift Certificate to be used at Pink By Design!!

Aren't those prizes amazing??!! And, there is SURE to be more awesome CANDY along the way!! I have some, too :)

Now to my project!! I had a really hard time choosing which project to use because all of Jessica's are so gorgeous!! I decided on one she featured on her blog on February 20, 2011. See her original post HERE!

Jessica's beautiful wall hanging is actually double-sided, but I made mine one-sided. Those of you that attended the Getting Cricky U R So Sweet Blog Hop on Friday might have seen my note about finding a sale at Michaels on a bundle of 10 canvases. Well, here is project two of ten :)

I prepped this canvas the same way I did my project on Friday...I Mod Podged old sheet music to the canvas and then sponged over it with white and burnt umber paint. I printed the flag on vellum and secured it with Mod Podge. You can't tell in the picture, but you can see through to the sheet music in person. I cut the stars from George and Basic Shapes on DCWV Metallic Copper paper, scored them and popped them up with foam tape.

The circle is a Spellbinders Nestabilities die. I have a large wooden stamp with the words of America the Beautiful and I stamped that on the circle with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I inked the edges with Fired Brick Distress Ink and lightly stamped Old Paper Distress Ink over the rest of the circle. I hand-cut the envelope, ran it through the Cuttlebug with the Stars Embossing folder and inked it with the same two distress inks. I attached a grommet with my Crop-a-Dile and threaded ribbon through, including some all-American blue jean ribbon :) I added some ivory tulle behind and attached the circle with foam tape.

For the three sentiments, I printed out a border from Elegant Edges and attached two together with foam tape for dimension. I stamped America the Beautiful on them as well and inked the paper with Old Paper Distress Ink. Another reason I was excited to recreate this project was the chance to use my K Andrew DesignsFreedom Isn't Free stamp set...the very first K Andrew Designs stamps that I owned!! All three sentiments plus "Freedom" on the circle are from this stamp set!

I have BLOG CANDY!! All you have to do to be eligible to win this beautiful paper package and matching flowers is:

Be a follower

Leave a comment with a way to contact you

That's it!! Easy Peasy!! I will announce a winner via Random.org on Thursday, January 26th! PLUS, I have two other BLOG CANDY giveaways going on right now!!

69 comments:

That canvas is awesome!! I love it. I have been wanting to do a home decor project, just not sure what?? You have inspired me, think I need to go shopping and get some canvas lol. So glad I could be in this hop with you.(:(:Smiles:):)

Guess I will have to pick up some canvas and try this. My nephew just got back from Afghanistan and was wanting something to decorate his basement with. I might have to try this! Thanks so much for sharing!Joan

Ok, I can't stop the tears now. I am only mid way through the hop and am a big cry baby, now....LOL!Lisa, I had to call the whole family in to show them this. You have done a superb job. And you put so much time into this project. I LOVE IT! I love your take on all of the elements right down to the stars and the tulle.I am honored to have you as part of the Hop today!Blends Til the End!:O)Jessica

this is fabulous Lisa, love it, the stars really pop off the canvas, you did a fabulous job. I remember the inspiration post for it well, it was quite an awesome project as well.I'm your newest follower Lisa, so happy to be in the hop with you today :)Cindy http://toolsofacropingqueen.blogspot.com

Lisa, I love, love your canvas! What a great take on Jessica's. The raised stamps are great. Thanks for the tip... Can't wait to see what you create with the other 8 canvases.Luisahttp://www.creativedesignsbyluisa.com

Already a follower and I noticed you are a new follower on my blog, thank you for doing that. Love your wall hanging. This is something that my son and his family would hang in their house, he is in the Army and they decorate a lot with red white and blue.janiceaeschliman.blogspot.commodjjjash at yahoo dot com

Like the patriotic canvas makeover. Has wonderful detail to it. Wonderful giveaways. I've been a follower of your wonderful blog for while.Melissa"Sunshine HoneyBee"http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com

Lisa your canvas is amazing! it's fabulous.. My Niece is a US MARINE Sergeant and I love this... I am also a new follower and look forward to seeing more ..Liz @ kreateabilities.blogspot.com I'd love for you to come and join me too

This is AWESOME!! I am really liking the canvas projects and would love to try it sometime:) You've got my curiousity! I love your design and how clever to make your stars 3D...very cool effect! You did a great job Lisa on this project!Sherrie Khttp://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

lol...thanks for not making me wait too long for the next canvas project! This one is fabulous too, Lisa. Love that you printed the flag on vellum. Genius idea. And those stars are paper?! I thought you had found some metal charms for sure. This one is one fabulous patriotic creation...and being from New England, you know I'm a fan of anything Patriots! :)

I really love this Lisa! I have tried a canvas project and they are so fun! You did such a fabulous job! I love all the metallic and the blue-jean ribbon. You seem to find the BEST ribbons and trims I've ever seen!Shellyhttp://mypaperlove.blogspot.com/

My talented friend, this is amazing! I seriously thought those stars were metal brads.. fabulous use of the copper paper and scoring. Jessica's original is wonderful and your take on it is fabulous, too. I love the sentiments, the sheet music, the rich flag, and of course that amazing tag. I LOVE that you made your own background for it (which is perfect) and the inking is wonderful. I think I need to try some of his inks. :o) And, naturally, you chose the perfect ribbons for it. Le sigh. Spectacular, my friend. (And I'm already excited to see what you do with the remaining 8 canvases!) Thank you for the chance to win your generous prize!

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